Ruff, Thomas. — Thomas Ruff : stellar landscapes.

Text by Melanie Bono. Heidelberg : Kehrer, 2011. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 143 pp. Ills. English & German text. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Thomas Ruff is one of the most internationally renowned contemporary German photo artists. In over two dozen series, he has explored and defined the boundaries of the medium of photography like no other contemporary artist. The catalog focuses particularly on four series from Thomas Ruff's oeuvre: the Sterne series, created between 1989 and 1992, the zycles series from 2007, the cassini series from 2008/2009, and current works from the ma.r.s. series. Since 1989, Thomas Ruff has put aside his own photographic production in favor of working with existing material. The exploration of structural and content-related issues of the medium is at the heart of his work. The source material for all of the photographs shown was scientific imagery, some of which is freely available online. While Thomas Ruff's intervention in the sterne series was limited to the selected image detail, he reworked the source material of the more recent series more extensively: For the cassini and ma.r.s. series, Thomas Ruff used images from various NASA missions. He digitally edited them, added colors, and manipulated contrasts and image details. ISBN 9783868282610.